IBAD Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi

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In one of the exceptional novels that stand out as an important and sincere witness of the War of Independence, Shirt of Flame, a nation's struggle for re-existence, was expressed by the narrator Peyami's delirium. Halide Edib Adıvar, who sincerely tells about our war of independence and her comrades with whom she fought shoulder to shoulder in this struggle, reveals the Flame Shirt of the War of Independence in all its vividness with his novel Shirt of Flame. Ayşe, which has become the symbol of Izmir and its liberation, becomes a shirt of flame for İhsan and Peyami, who are increasingly attached to her. Both of them swore to die by following the Izmir girl on the way to Izmir. İhsan, fighting with the enemy and his own emotions on the one hand, falls a martyr at the front. Filled with the consciousness of Turkishness and the determination to fight, Ayşe joins the national struggle as a nurse and inspires the young people of Istanbul. Women are ready and able to fight for the independence of the country by taking on various roles to compete with men. The novelist, who examines the struggle for the re-existence of a nation in the dilemma of love and cause in the Shirt of Flame, has made the struggle for both social, national and individual freedom even more concrete with the analogy of a shirt of flame. When it comes to the sacrifices made for the national cause that override personal preference and feelings, the role of women is at least as great as that of men. The aim of this study is to show how Ayşe, who made the liberation of İzmir her only love and dream, acted with the spirit of national struggle, realized that the love and relations experienced during the War of Independence were like a "Shirt of Flame" and gave priority to the national cause.